[cad-linux] Re: OT: Open data formats (continuation of previous thread)
- From: "Tomas" <tomas2@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:45:33 +0300
"Jeffrey McGrew" wrote:
> I completely understand this; however there are times where software =
> companies made unnecessary changes just to get people to upgrade with =
> the veil of 'new features'.
Loosing backward compability is what i'm most concerned about.
For example i have many important documents created with
MS Word 2.0, and Word 97 cannot even open them!
(I don't have or use Word 97 myself, or any other version than 2.0,
but i tryed it on a friends computer.)
Oh well, StarOffice 5.2 does at least open them, formatting is not
perfect, but it _does_ at least try...
(I use OpenOffice for my work documents from now on, both on Linux
and on Windows.)
Another example: Why did AutoCAD dump the command dbtrans from
their newer versions of AutoCAD? Now i cannot any longer automatically
correct the text in older DOS (AutoCAD R12) drawings.
DWF isn't an option: What the #@%%!!!, i want access to _my_ data!
Even if it's old!
Consider this scenario: I create a drawing of some construction.
Ten years later the customer want to change something on that
construction, and of course i try to open the old drawing file,
and change what need to be changed in the file, instead of drawing
everything again from scratch.
Too bad, AutoDesk decided that i don't need the ability to open my
old files any longer, so they removed that ability from the CAD
program i use by then...
DWF doesn't help at all then.
Tomas
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